Octopus Garden

The staff standing by the front door should be ashamed of themselves. A guy I know got pistol whipped and mugged right in front of them at 9:30pm last week.  Not one of them helped--they actually yelled at him to "get the f*** away from the door" because he was "bleeding all over the place."
DISGUSTING.

Octopus's Garden clearly meets the definition of a street side dive bar/sports bar no matter any variances one may have to the definition. It's lousy except for the one redeeming feature that appeals to me, being that right there on the sidewalk is a bar counter; merely pull up a stool, sit down and enjoy a drink. Of course, having to listen to horse gravely bar room tenor voices other patrons ignorantly shouting flat screen in stupid hopes of having a football referee change his call in a game being played in California tends to be somewhat of mind rattling annoyance, but I suppose such in life in the dive bar/sports bar setting. Drinks are generously poured by a half sloshed bartender who surprisingly seems to maintain a good degree of attention as to what he is doing in spite of being somewhat mind altered.

As a tip, don't let anything, especially money, keys or a purse sit on the bar since the chances are nearly 100% that there is a needy street vagrant seated next to you or very nearby just waiting for the opportunity of helping himself/herself to anything available or within his or her reach.

GREAT SERVICE~!  FILMED PARTS OF ROCK OF AGES HERE.

These guys are literately partying from 7am-2am.  Staff is very cool and they even have little go go dancers on stripper poles on the weekend.

This is just a local bar that has been here forever serving Hollywood Blvd and helping keep the street alive!

Is it clean, No  is the food great YES (when your shit faced) is the music good... umm But its fun.  PERIOD!